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dramatic reenactment

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residential area

3

both sides

2

private house

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manhole

1

insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness

69

flapping sound (of wings); fluttering; hum (of insects); whizz (of a flying arrow); whoosh

4

destination; whereabouts; future; prospects

1

rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)

21

telephone pole

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to fly away; to flee away; to scatter

3

doubt; suspicion; question; strangeness

1

landlord; landlady

1

horse mackerel (Carangidae spp., esp. the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus); jack mackerel; pompano; scad

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fish salted and dried overnight

1

cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

3

miso soup

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fresh Japanese sweets (usu. containing red bean paste); fresh Western sweets (usu. containing cream or fruit, e.g. sponge cake, pie)

1

to be duplicated; to be repeated; to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.); to make a double play

2

omen; sign; notice; indication

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actually; really

2

to lose one's composure

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putt

2

watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)

1

spelling; orthography; file; pad; bundle

1

reading; reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading); reading (e.g. of a situation); insight

1

within the country; inside the county; domestic; home; internal

2

another; different; something else

1

to carry or bring in(to)

1

chit; slip; ticket; voucher

1

two sheets (of paper or other flat objects)

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address; destination

2

aim; object; expectations; prospects; something that can be relied upon; snack served with alcoholic drink; pad

2

sender (e.g. of mail)

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granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman

2

to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)

3

wagashi; traditional Japanese confectionery

2

toothpick; skewer (used to cut and hold sweets served at a tea ceremony); toothbrush (orig. made from a thin willow branch frayed at one end)

1

to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

2

to raise the bar

2

surely; certainly

1

provocative; incendiary; inflammatory; suggestive; lascivious; risqué

1

cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.); unavoidable; inevitable

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to leave words (behind one, e.g. after death); to say (for posterity); to utter last words; to leave some things unsaid

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in advance; beforehand; previously; ahead of time

3

mother's side of family; maternal (grandfather, uncle, etc.)

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grandmother

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kindergarten (in Japan, non-compulsory education from age 3 until primary school); preschool

3

Okinawa (city, prefecture)

2

migration; move; emigration; immigration

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